Big Ten adds Two

Over the weekend an interesting story in college sports came to surface. On Saturday it first broke that Maryland and Rutgers were leaving their current conferences, the ACC and Big East, respectively to become the 13th and 14th members of the Big Ten. Speculation and anticipation was in the air for the rest of the weekend awaitng to see if these were just rumors. Late Monday morning, any doubts were put to rest when ESPN officially broke the news that Maryland will be joing the Big Ten starting in the July of 2014. Rutgers has been given an invite and is reviewing their options. I do not like how now the conferences are becoming these "super-conferences" that have no relevance to geographic and historic rivalries. Maryland and Rutgers both do not fit the Big Ten's reputation and just don't make sense. I miss the old rivalries such as the Backyard Brawl (Pitt - WVU) and the LoneStar Showdown (Texas - Texas A&M) that are for the present and near future extinct as a result of all this conference realignment!